Elisabeth Ruge
Elisabeth Ruge, born in 1960, is an editor, publisher and literary agent. She studied English, American and Slavic studies in Frankfurt a.M., Moscow and the USA. After working as an editor at S. Fischer Verlag, she founded Berlin Verlag in 1994 together with Arnulf Conradi and Veit Heinichen. Her publishing clients include Ingo Schulze, Svetlana Alexievich, Péter Nádas, Zeruya Shalev, and Jonathan Littell. In 2011, she established the Berlin branch of Carl Hanser Verlag, which she subsequently headed for three years. Today she runs her own literary agency, the Elisabeth Ruge Agentur (ERA), founded in 2014. She is also active as a translator and author.